JOURNALIST'S MEMORIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19546, 3 May 1927, Page 8

JOURNALIST'S MEMORIAL

Journalists are rarely honored in life, and hardly ever after they are dead, so that it is pleasant to bear that the Municipal Council of Blovice (or Blowitz), in Bohemia, has decided to place a memorial on the bouse of De Blowitz’s birth. After nil, Biowitz, the famous Paris correspondent of ‘The Times,’ carried the reputation of the journalist pretty high. Supremo master of the bow-wow style, he was in some things in advance of his times, but, if everything he wrote in his memoirs need not bo taken quite seriously, it is clear that he saw to it that the most august personages took no interest with him as a representative of his profession. Ho made himself feared, and he seems also to have made himself respected, added to which he was a very consummate journalist. He_ says himself that if anyone offered him a diplomatic secret of whatever importance with a caveat against any form of publication he always closed the conversation. “I am a journalist,” he would say; “if I am not to treat what you tell me as a journalist, I am not interested.” His “scoops” were obtained by what he called legitimate warfare with the diplomats, who “ regard the journalist as an auxiliary, sometimes useful, and always dangerous, and will never hesitate to throw him overboard when it suits ideas of duty to do so.”